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Netflix paid $587 million for Ben Affleck’s artificial intelligence film startup | TechCrunch 0
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- July 19, 2026
In a new regulatory filing, Netflix revealed that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by actor and director Ben Affleck. The streaming company announced the acquisition in March, with a statement from Affleck saying he wanted to “protect the power of human creativity.” According to Affleck, InterPublic’s AI tools help
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What to expect after Jensen Huang’s visit to Japan | TechCrunch 0
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- July 19, 2026
Nvidia boss Jensen Huang spent two days (July 15-16) in Tokyo courting Japan’s industrial and chip supplier elite, weeks after a keynote speech in Taiwan and months after a visit to South Korea. It left with deals that span Japan’s entire tech ecosystem: a national AI factory, partnerships with the country’s leading robotics companies, and
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Could an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans? | TechCrunch 0
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- July 19, 2026
Apple recently filed a trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the artificial intelligence company of a pattern of misconduct aimed at getting current and former Apple employees to share confidential information. (In response, OpenAI said it is “not aware of any evidence that this complaint has merit.”) On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast,
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TechCrunch Mobility: The battle over robotaxi rules | TechCrunch 0
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- July 19, 2026
Welcome back to Mobility TechCrunchits center for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a role. To get this delivered to your inbox, sign up here for free – just click TechCrunch Mobility! Last week I wrote about Uber and Waymo and how their partnership appears to be deteriorating.
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‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’ | TechCrunch 0
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- July 19, 2026
Christopher Nolan, the Oscar-winning director whose remake of “The Odyssey” is currently conquering the box office, said it has been “quite encouraging” to see deep skepticism toward AI, especially among young people. Nolan was responding to a question from interviewer Hugo Travers, who posts on YouTube under the name HugoDécrypte. Travers mentioned the legendary Trojan
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Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for everyone | TechCrunch 0
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- July 19, 2026
A farmer in rural India takes a photograph of a dying plant. He wants to research it on the Internet but he doesn’t speak English. She shouldn’t have to do it. That’s the kind of problem a nonprofit called Current AI is trying to solve by building an open, public AI infrastructure. In February at
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